"Oliver Elphick" <olly@lfix.co.uk> writes:
> The reason is probably that you are running these commands directly > rather than under the control of the postgresql-dump script. According to the man page: postgresql-dump - a utility to dump and destroy a PostĀ greSQL database when the database format becomes incompatĀ ible with a previous version. What I wanted to do is use pg_dumpall was to backup the database. I see now that if I cd to /usr/lib/postgresql/bin it works. Thanks for your reply. Johann -- J.H. Spies - Tel. 082 782 0336. Posbus 4668, Tygervallei 7536 "For whosoever will save his life shall lose it. But whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it." Luke 9:24